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Search our extensive curated collection of more than ten thousand poems by occasion (Autumn to Easter, Veterans Day to Valentine’s Day, etc.), theme (love, nature, sports, etc.), and form (sonnets, haiku, etc.), or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

Title Author Year
The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter Mary Jean Chan 2019
Do Not Cheer, Men are Dying Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
The Hill Rupert Brooke 2018
A Boy Can Wear a Dress John Bosworth 2018
A Way of Seeing Kwame Dawes 2017
Morning on Shinnecock Olivia Ward Bush-Banks 1916
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Even the most kindhearted white woman] Terrance Hayes 2017
FaceTime Clint Smith 2017
From WHEREAS [“WHEREAS when offered ...”] Layli Long Soldier 2017
On Imagination Phillis Wheatley 2016
Audenesque Seamus Heaney 2016
The Forest in the Axe André Breton 2003
The Outlet (162) Emily Dickinson 1860
the lost women Lucille Clifton 1989
Father’s Song Gregory Orr 2002
5 & 7 & 5 Anselm Hollo 2001
How Can It Be I Am No Longer I Lucie Brock-Broido 1997
O Little Root of a Dream Paul Celan 2000
In a Country Larry Levis 1977
Stanzas [How like a star you rose upon my life,] Mary Shelley 1838

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